Structure -convexe d’une algèbre limite inductive localement convexe d’algèbres de Banach
In this note we produce a complex algebra without characters and which does not contain a proper extension of the complex number field.
A lemma of Gelfand-Hille type is proved. It is used to give an improved version of a result of Kalton on sums of idempotents.
It is a famous conjecture that every derivation on each Banach algebra leaves every primitive ideal of the algebra invariant. This conjecture is known to be true if, in addition, the derivation is assumed to be continuous. It is also known to be true if the algebra is commutative, in which case the derivation necessarily maps into the (Jacobson) radical. Because I. M. Singer and J. Wermer originally raised the question in 1955 for the case of commutative Banach algebras, the conjecture is...
It is shown that every unital σ-complete topologically primitive strongly galbed Hausdorff algebra in which all elements are bounded is central
In this paper we consider a subset  of a Banach algebra A (containing all elements of A which have a generalized inverse) and characterize membership in the closure of the invertibles for the elements of Â. Thus our result yields a characterization of the closure of the invertible group for all those Banach algebras A which satisfy  = A. In particular, we prove that  = A when A is a von Neumann algebra. We also derive from our characterization new proofs of previously known results, namely Feldman...